Let Me Google That show

Let Me Google That

Summary: Fascinating fodder to fuel your next trip down a Wikihole. New episode every Sunday! Brought to you by Water Cooler Trivia (watercoolertrivia.com). *Content Warning* Language, comic mischief, & weird stuff! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/letmegooglethat/support

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Podcasts:

 The Story Behind MBTI Types | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 627

The "personality" test was developed during WWII by a mother-daughter team trying to help women entering the workforce for the first time.

 Can Plants See? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 432

Your jade plant probably knows what you do when you're alone and it's probably hardcore judging you.

 The Penguin That Never Existed | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 336

Scientists thought they'd discovered a new species of penguin that went extinct during the Holocene era. Turns out it never existed at all.

 2017 Eclipse v. Solar Power | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 336

So how will solar panels react to ... no sun?

 Probability of a Sunrise | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 368

What is the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow?

 Hedgehogs & Human Intimacy | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 217

Psychologists like Freud used a metaphor of spiny hedgehogs never really being able to get close to one another without hurting each other (and getting hurt themselves) to describe human intimacy.

 THE LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 493

In 1590 a colony of like one hundred settlers ghosted on Sir Walter Raleigh and we still don't know where the hell they went.

 Mercury in Retrograde | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 463

Is there any scientific basis for this fuckery?

 Damnatio Memoriae | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 553

Can you erase a person from history? Asking for a friend.

 The Truth About Banana Flavor | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 330

It's not fake, it just doesn't taste like bananas you're familiar with.

 Can You Legally Sell a Kidney? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 331

There's only one place on the world where you can legally sell a kidney. It'll net you a few grand - oh, AND YOU'LL SAVE A LIFE!

 Swift-Tuttle Comet | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 324

If you saw the Perseid Meteor Shower this weekend you have a specific and vaguely terrifying comet to thank.

 Why is the night sky dark? | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 338

All those stars! No light! Why?

 The Origin of "Where's Waldo" | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 487

Depending on where you grew up, the striped shirted search-and-find character went by various names. And apparently the internet ships him with Carmen Sandiego.

 What Nuclear War Would Be Like | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 603

Three words: mutually assured destruction. And no, I'm not talking about my past relationships.

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